Originally Posted by Mrs C:
“I'm sorry to all those who think she is "tv gold" and "hilarious" and making out because Tony was at a Fox Hunt he should have no right to object to Lady C and beetlegate - but her vitriolic diatribe to Tony is inexcusable.
She thinks she can say anything to anyone and be as vindictive and nasty as she likes because of her rank! If you try to stand up for her she uses vocabulary that is simply unacceptable and disrespectful.
I think Tony showed remarkable restraint - and the others should have put her in her place.
Dreadful, dreadful behaviour.”
You are absolutely wrong with this appraisal....
First of all I find it impossible to dislike Lady C. I wouldn't want to be stuck in a lift with her, but I can't dislike her....
The thing is that Tony didn't care about the bug. He used it as an excuse to blame Lady C for something. And Lady C is clever. She knew instantly what Tony's motivations were and so she went into attack mode.
She went too far in a sense, but she wouldn't have said anything had Tony not accused her of something that
he doesn't care about. It's that very specific principle that angered Lady C.
If you look at her behaviour she always responds (somewhere down the line) on a point of principle.
If he did care about the welfare of bugs he would have stayed at home, and said something in puublic similar to what Chris Packham said last year (about insect and animal cruelty).
But the lure of the filthy lucre was too much for our Tone, and he doesn't give a stuff about the insects.
So yes Lady C went to far, but she was poked with a metaphorical stick by Tony.
And with every day that passes...I love Lady C more and more.....